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This document was created by an unregistered ChmMagic, please go to http://www.bisenter.com to register it. ThanksThe best way to learn about this color mode is to work with it. Open your Color Picker and click a color. Then watch the numbers as youclick a different one. Explore the different radio button settings and their color fields.Ever wondered about those little letters and numbers at the bottom of the window? You can see the HTML code for any color you select,right there at the bottom of the dialog box. Those codes are in hexadecimal format, ready to enter in your web page HTML source, if you'reone of those brave Web warriors who hand-code HTML. If not, don't worry about it. When you place your Photoshop picture into yourweb-creation program, it'll all happen automatically.The Color PaletteThe Color palette has several advantages over the Color Picker when you're working in Photoshop. First of all, you can leave it open, soyou can change colors without having to go through all the fuss of clicking a swatch in the toolbox, finding the color, and verifying yourchoice. You can also dock it in the palette well at the far right of the Tool Options bar, just by dragging its tab to the well.Housekeeping TipDon't dock too many palettes in the palette well, or they'll be just as hard tolocate as on the desktop. Try to limit yourself to the most frequently usedones, such as Brushes, Color, and Layers.For those of you who are mathematically challenged, the Color palette has fewer numbers to contend with, and the ones you see, as inFigure 8.5, are logically related to the sliders. By default, the Color palette opens in whatever mode you used last, but you can set it toGrayscale, or whichever color model you prefer to work in, by using the pop-up menu as shown in Figure 8.6. You can even choose Webcolors as a variant of RGB.Figure 8.5. The Color palette and its menu.